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You may be aware that the registration deadline for the International Sociological Association's (ISA) 2018 World Congress in Toronto is just around the corner (March 20). TASA will be having a stand there (#30) to promote our ISA 2022 Melbourne event. Email the TASA Office if you are going to Toronto and we'll add you to the list below:

TASA members attending ISA 2018 Toronto

• Dan Woodman (ISA 2022 LOC)
• Katie Hughes (ISA 2022 LOC)
• Jo Lindsay (ISA 2022 LOC)
• Luke Gahan
• Sally Daly
• Ben Lohmeyer
• Judith Bessant
• Garth Stahl
• Anna Halafoff

Health Sociology Review

Call for New Editorial Team

Applications are invited for the editorship of the journal Health Sociology Review for the four-year term 2019–2022. Transition arrangements will begin in 2018, although the content for the first issue of 2019 will be finalised by the out-going editors. Submissions due: June 29. Read on...

Journal of Sociology

Call for Submissions

Special Edition 2020: The Journal of Sociology is an international journal published four times a year by Sage. Each year the Editors invite expressions of interest from the international community of sociological scholars in guest editing a Special Edition of the Journal. Special Editions may address any sociological theme which is likely to be of interest to the Journal readership.                                                                Expressions of Interests due: July 9. Read on...

Call for Papers

Special Edition of the Journal of Sociology 2019: “Inequalities in the ‘Gig Economy’ era: gender and generational challenges”.                          Abstracts due: April 8. Read on... 

Congratulations

A warm congratulations to fellow members Olivia King who was recently awarded a PhD in sociology. 

King, O. 2018, Role Boundaries and Scopes of Practice: The Interdisciplinary Diabetes Educator Role, PhD thesis, School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University.

2018 Awards

• Stephen Crook Memorial Prize - Closes April 30.  Read on...
• Raewyn Connell Prize - Closes April 30. Read on...
• Outstanding Service to TASA - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Sociology in Action - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize - Closes June 30. Read on...

For details, please go to the Social Sciences Week website. 

Members' Publications

Book Chapters

Mallman, Mark. 2018. “Disruption in the working-class family: the early origins of social mobility and habitus clivé”. Social Mobility for the 21st Century: Everyone a Winner? Eds. Steph Lawler and Geoff Payne. London: Routledge. 25-36.

Journal - Articles

Robyn Moore (2018) Resolving the Tensions Between White People’s Active Investment in Racial Inequality and White Ignorance: A Response to Marzia Milazzo, Journal of Applied Philosophy, doi: 10.1111/japp.12306.

Laing, M. & Maylea, C. (2018). “They burn brightly, but only for a short time”: The role of social workers in companion animal grief and loss. Anthrozoös, 31(2), 221-232. DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2018.1434062

Podcasts

Karen Block, 'NW Community Radio’s MAD (Making a Difference) Village program features Dr Karen Block talking about sport and social inclusion and her sports participation project, Count Me In' 

Blogs

Postgraduate sub-committee, 'Overview of PG Day 2017'

Videos

James Arvanitakis, Jack Tsonis & Alex Norman., 'PhD Final Stages - What Happens After Submission?'

Zines

Ashleigh Watson, 'So Fi zine is currently accepting submissions for Edition #3.' Submit by April 15.

Members' Keynote Invitations

Have you been invited to give a keynote? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can list the details in the weekly newsletter here. 

Fran Collyer has been invited as keynote speaker at the opening of the 17th European Society for Health and Medical Sociology Biennal Congress in Lisbon in June 2018. The conference theme is: Old tensions, emerging paradoxes in health: rights, knowledge, and trust’. The congress aims to offer a forum for new insights into the tensions and paradoxes health systems are currently facing as a result of broad social and political transformations. 

Two fellow members, Shanthi Robertson and Crystal Abidin, have been invited as keynote speakers at The Alfred Deakin Institute’s flagship conference, 'Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific

Promotions

Have you been promoted recently? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can share the details in the weekly newsletter here.

Thematic Groups

Re-imagining economic security & wellbeing in an age of precarity

Workshop for TASA members hosted jointly by TASA ‘Sociology of Economic Life’ and ‘Work, Employment and Social Movements’ Thematic Groups    Melbourne, Friday 23 November                                                                                        Abstract submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Call for Book Proposals

A new Palgrave book series edited by TASA members Kim Toffoletti (Deakin) and Holly Thorpe (U.Waikato, NZ) (along with Jessica Francombe-Webb, U.Bath, UK) is seeking book proposals. The series, titled ‘New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures’, welcomes proposals that investigate gender identities and assemblages in sport, physical culture and fitness contexts. For more details please contact kim.toffoletti@deakin.edu.au or follow this link.

Call for Papers

Performing the University (working title): An anthology about the concept of the university as performance

Volume Editors: James Arvanitakis (Western Sydney University), Peter Copeman (University of Canberra) & Amanda Burrell (Western Sydney University)            Universities are cultural entities, fashioned, refashioned and contextualised in specific social and historical circumstances, in elaborate and protracted processes. As such, they are constituted by behaviours that are learned, rehearsed, presented and re-presented over time – as a series of performances. Abstract submission deadline: April 3. Read on...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Seminar Series

Deakin Downtown, 727 Collins Street, Tower 2, Docklands, Victoria. The seminars are held on the first Friday of every month. Fellow member Brady Robards is scheduled to speak on Friday May 4. The full list of speakers for the year can be viewed here.

Queer Will: hikikomori as willful subjects                                                                            'First Fridays' Deakin GSS Seminar Series: Rosemary Overell on 'Queer Will'                  April 6, Melbourne. Read on...

Conferences

New: Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific                            This year’s conference will explore the increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain world that young people across the Asia Pacific live in.                                                                  15 – 16 November,  Deakin Downtown, Melbourne                                                            Keynote speakers include fellow members Shanthi Robertson and Crystal Abidin Submission deadline: May 14. Read on...

New: Oceania Ethnography and Education Network  - for scholars interested in the socio-cultural analysis of education.                                                                                         16-17 August 2018 at Deakin Downtown (Melbourne, Vic)                                          Submission deadline: May 1. Read on...

International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe 16-19th of November, Chengdu, China.                                                                                Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

European Sociological Association Research Network 29 Social Theory Mid-term Conference Refigurations of Society, Sociological Perspectives on Modernity in Transition                                                                                                                      September 5-6, Berlin, Germany                                                                                  Submission deadline: April 7. Read on...

Gift Memberships

Gift memberships are available with TASA.  If you would like to purchase a gift membership, please email the following details through to the TASA Office:

1. First name of gift recipient;
2. email address of gift recipient;
3. the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
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Upon receiving the above details, TASA will email the recipient with full details on how they can take up the gift membership.  You can view an example of that email in both Word (39kb) and Pdf (159kb) formats. You will receive an invoice, via email, after the recipient completes the online membership form.

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